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A MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF THE GELIDIALES (RHODOPHYTA) BASED ON ANALYSIS OF PLASTID rbc L NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES 1
Author(s) -
Freshwater D. Wilson,
Fredericq Suzanne,
Hommersand Max H.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of phycology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.85
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1529-8817
pISSN - 0022-3646
DOI - 10.1111/j.1529-8817.1995.tb02558.x
Subject(s) - biology , monophyly , clade , phylogenetic tree , phylogenetics , taxon , evolutionary biology , plastid , botany , genetics , gene , chloroplast
Parsimony analyses of rbcL nucleotide. sequences were used to develop hypotheses of relationships among taxa in the taxonomically difficult order Celidiales including species from seven currently recognized genera: Capreolia, Gelidiella, Gelidium, Onikusa, Pterocladia, Ptilophora, and Suhria. Nucleotide. sequences of rbcL from red algae are variable and provide a large number of informative characters for phylogenetic analysis, yet the absence of insertion/deletion mutations allows for the unambiguous alignment of sequences. Species were resolved into 10 well‐.supported major clades representing genera and species complexes. The topological positions of these 10 clades within trees are also well supported and indicate that Gelidium and Pterocladia as currently circumscribed are not monophyletic. These results call for a revision of the classification of the Gelidiales .